Donato Giancola recently finished this painting for Kathleen Bryan's The Last Paladin.Occasionally I will get a number of great sketches for one project. In this case, Donato had created a couple of sketches for the first book in the series, The Serpent and the Rose
, and I hated the idea of picking just one of them. Luckily the editor, Beth Meacham, said that one would be perfect for Serpent while the other could be kept for this concluding volume. It was nice entering into a sales season knowing that we had an approved sketch a year and half before we needed the painting.IMAGES:
Final Painting.
Initial thumbnails. The top right became The Last Paladin while the bottom thumb was used for The Serpent and the Rose.
Flushing out the thumbnail.
Final Drawing.